I am in the middle of final setting. And then I discovered a serious problem.
I DON'T HAVE ANY SAMPLE!
It may sound funny but I can't use any surface. I mean I can use any surface but it useless. It will not tell me if there is a lot of noise or maybe it doesn't work at all and there is some garbage/noise that looks flat...
I've recalled that someone used CD-ROM pits to test his device. So I found some old CD-ROM.
Under the microscope it looks like
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6578151721181069379.jpg)
I've focused on the numbers each CD ROM disc has before actual data.
Are those the pits and grooves? Let's take a close look.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/1309091721181263875.jpg)
It does look like the grooves. Let's look at the data
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/4411861721181653516.jpg)
It's not clear her from this picture but there is no pits but straight parallel lines.
This is a writable CD-ROM. Let's take a look at read only CD-ROM.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/5107781721182408050.jpg)
Here we can see the pitches and the data itself looks like:
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/1106311721182661959.jpg)
Here we don't see the groves only the pitches. Those two CD-ROMs can be used to varify if our AFM is working
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